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. 2022 Sep 2;8(9):e10514. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10514

Table 9.

Key findings regarding the correlation between cryptocurrency and stock market during the COVID-19.

Author/s Cryptocurrency Used Sample (Countries) Key Findings
Jeribi et al. (2021) Bitcoin, Dash, Ethereum, Monero, and Ripple BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) stock markets
  • During the COVID-19 financial crisis, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Monero, and Ripple were discovered to be a safe haven for three developing economies (Brazil, China, and Russia).

Lahmiri and Bekiros (2021) 45 Cryptocurrency markets 16 International Equity markets
  • The pandemic of COVID-19 has had a substantial impact on the long-term return and volatility of cryptocurrencies and international stock markets.

Umar and Gubareva (2020) Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index (BGCI) EUR, GBP, RMB
  • All PI-currency pairings exhibit comparable patterns over time and frequency scales in their individual heatmaps, revealing a high degree of coherence and dependency around the COVID-19 panic's apogee in mid-March.

Conlon et al. (2020) Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether US (S&P 500), UK (FTSE 100), Italy (FTSE MIB), Spain (IBEX), and China (CSI 300)
  • Bitcoin and Ethereum are not a safe haven currency for the vast majority of foreign equities markets assessed during the course of the covid-19 era.

  • Tether is found to act as a safe haven over the most recent period including the COVID-19 crisis.

Mariana et al. (2021) Bitcoin and Ethereum USA (S&P500)
  • Bitcoin and Ethereum are appropriate as safe havens for the near term.

  • Ethereum is preferable than Bitcoin as a safe haven when the stock market goes down quickly.

  • Ethereum has a higher rate of return volatility than Bitcoin.

Corbet et al. (2020) Bitcoin China (CSI 300)
  • Gold and other cryptocurrencies don't have a big impact on the Chinese stock market as assessed by the price of Bitcoin in China.

Grobys (2021) Bitcoin USA (S&P500)
  • The drop in the price of Bitcoin was not just caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was also caused by problems with cryptocurrency exchanges' market microstructure.

Yousaf and Ali (2021) Litecoin, Bitcoin, and Ethereum USA
  • During the pre-COVID-19 era, return overflow and instability between the US stock market and the crypto market were low.

Caferra & Vidal-Tom´as (2021) Bitcoin and Ethereum USA and Eurozone (France and Germany)
  • Both cryptocurrency and stock values plummeted precipitously during COVID-19. Despite this correction, cryptocurrencies immediately recovered, while the stock market remained in bad territory.